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- Tue Jun 28, 2005 5:29 pm
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Glastonbury Mini-Reviews and Tales From The Weekend
The Thrills – Good stuff. Big Sur sounded great, plus seeing them kind of meant there was no need to see The Magic Numbers the next day
The Others – Had fun seeing these. That lead singer is a natural (part of why I saw them is because I apparently look like him) and the songs all have a good rocky kick to them. They made me feel guilty for being middle class though.
Babyshambles – 20 minutes late coming on stage meant I only stuck around for one wank sounding song.
Doves – Shame they opened with my favourite song from them (Pounding), but everybody really liked it and they’ve clearly come a long way from when first I saw them 4 years ago
The Killers – Aces. My favourite album tracks (Jenny, Somebody Told Me, Brightside) have never sounded better. 3rd favourite act of the weekend
Fatboy Slim – Reall, it’s impossible to imagine a better DJ set, and this was a great example of what can be done when a performance is given a sizable budget to play with.
KT Tunstall – The songs I turned up to hear (Suddenly, Other Side, Black Horse) struggled in such a big field, but the between song banter was great and generally fun was had
Kaiser Chiefs – Missed the first two songs thanks to KT, but their playful nature won me over immediately, with their stealing inflatable dinosaurs, taking the piss out of security and successful attempts at crowd surfing
Ash – A standard, solid set, though as I’ve never seen them that was more than enough. And God I adore Girl From Mars.
Keane – Bless Tom for yelling ‘GLASTONBURY!’ after the first song, bigger and better then he did last year. His continues complementing of the crowd grated after a while though. Still, fun was had. This was my third time seeing Keane and that’ll do nicely now until album #2.
New Order – They seemed a little lost on what was basically a Coldplay audience, but the areas of the set that I recognised were good fun. Ending with World In Motion seemed a bit overly patriotic for Glastonbury though
Coldplay – Lived up to my ridiculously high expectations. Swallowed In The Sea was an unlikely highlight, I still fail to understand the appeal of God Put A Smile Upon Your Face, and last night I spotted myself in the crowd on the BBC2 footage. Joint best set of Glastonbury 05
Folkface – Hilarious comedy set in the Jazz Lounge.
Thirteen Senses – Left after three songs, bored. Not really suited to playing in a big field I think.
Jools Holland – Ideal dancing music, and dance I did. Enjoy Yourself was one of the sing-along highlights of the weekend
Brendan Benson – Missed his full set, this was and acoustic effort in The Guardian Lounge. Seemed solid enough, for an act I don’t know one song by. Seeing him again on Sunday in Manchester.
Sons And Daughters – Rocked it up to a satisfying degree. Might have to get the album.
Mylo - Joint best set of Glastonbury 05. The actual quality of performance was a bit worse than the first time I saw him, but the crowd was so scarily up for it it didn’t matter. Danced for an hour straight and left covered in sweat. Anybody who doesn’t own this guy’s album needs their head checked.
Primal Scream – Only caught 10 minutes of their over-running set. This was car crash live music at it’s very best. The highlight was the stage manager coming on stage to force an end to the performance
Basement Jaxx – My least favourite of the three headline acts I saw, but they were still excellent. Not helped by an overly tall audience. Current single You Don’t Know Me was an unlikely highlight.
Stories Worth Telling From The Weekend
That Storm – I benefited from camping on a hill, and not leaving my tent until the worst of the rain had passed. The thunder and rain woke me up at half six, and I spent a lot of the morning listening to Radio 1’s attempts to cope with the flash floods.
On The Radio – On Saturday afternoon I headed to the Radio 1 Stage to watch Moyles and Vernon’s show live. Somehow I was front row dead centre when they started talking of a mystery band that would be along to play an acoustic set soon. A bit later they brought along equipment labelled Keane, later still and the band turned up, played Somewhere Only We Know just for the assembled crowd, then did an interview and Bend And Break on air. Needless to say I left quite smug that I’d had such a prime position for this surprise set.
Final Night and The Silent Disco – After Basement Jaxx’s set, and having successfully returned Krystina safely back to her caravan, I headed to The Silent Disco to see what it was like. The queue was huge so I visited The Pussy Parlur first, which was like I 50s décor club in the Dance Village. Very Cool. Didn’t stay long though, and headed to the Silent Disco.
This is really worth taking the time to explain. Brought in to help Glastonbury’s problems making loud noise throughout the night, upon entrance you are handed a pair of wireless headphones, and everybody dances along like a normal club night. Here’s the real genius though: There are two separate DJ’s, and your headphones have a tuning dial so you can constantly pick which one to listen to. Half the people then, are constantly dancing to something completely different to you. The DJ’s aren’t afraid to mix genres up, and the whole thing works as a competition between the two of them - they’ll occasionally ask you through the headphones to cheer if you are listening to them and will compete for the biggest response. One highlight was half the crowd singing Brimful Of Asha, while the other half shout along to Anarchy In The UK. Ridiculously good fun.
It was helped that the people I met in the Saturday night Keane/New Order/Coldplay crowd showed up, adding a reunion atmosphere to the whole thing. Finally left at half three in the morning, and was walking through my field when I figured that as sunrise was only about an hour away, and it’s a half hour walk across the site, I may as well for the first time see the sunrise from the stone circle. It rounded off the weekend perfectly, and finally got back to my tent at 7.
Slept for two hours, then packed everything up and made my way to the bus station, where the coach was the traditional 3 hours late turning up. Didn’t care though, this was for me the best Glastonbury yet. 2007 seems all too far away…
The Thrills – Good stuff. Big Sur sounded great, plus seeing them kind of meant there was no need to see The Magic Numbers the next day
The Others – Had fun seeing these. That lead singer is a natural (part of why I saw them is because I apparently look like him) and the songs all have a good rocky kick to them. They made me feel guilty for being middle class though.
Babyshambles – 20 minutes late coming on stage meant I only stuck around for one wank sounding song.
Doves – Shame they opened with my favourite song from them (Pounding), but everybody really liked it and they’ve clearly come a long way from when first I saw them 4 years ago
The Killers – Aces. My favourite album tracks (Jenny, Somebody Told Me, Brightside) have never sounded better. 3rd favourite act of the weekend
Fatboy Slim – Reall, it’s impossible to imagine a better DJ set, and this was a great example of what can be done when a performance is given a sizable budget to play with.
KT Tunstall – The songs I turned up to hear (Suddenly, Other Side, Black Horse) struggled in such a big field, but the between song banter was great and generally fun was had
Kaiser Chiefs – Missed the first two songs thanks to KT, but their playful nature won me over immediately, with their stealing inflatable dinosaurs, taking the piss out of security and successful attempts at crowd surfing
Ash – A standard, solid set, though as I’ve never seen them that was more than enough. And God I adore Girl From Mars.
Keane – Bless Tom for yelling ‘GLASTONBURY!’ after the first song, bigger and better then he did last year. His continues complementing of the crowd grated after a while though. Still, fun was had. This was my third time seeing Keane and that’ll do nicely now until album #2.
New Order – They seemed a little lost on what was basically a Coldplay audience, but the areas of the set that I recognised were good fun. Ending with World In Motion seemed a bit overly patriotic for Glastonbury though
Coldplay – Lived up to my ridiculously high expectations. Swallowed In The Sea was an unlikely highlight, I still fail to understand the appeal of God Put A Smile Upon Your Face, and last night I spotted myself in the crowd on the BBC2 footage. Joint best set of Glastonbury 05
Folkface – Hilarious comedy set in the Jazz Lounge.
Thirteen Senses – Left after three songs, bored. Not really suited to playing in a big field I think.
Jools Holland – Ideal dancing music, and dance I did. Enjoy Yourself was one of the sing-along highlights of the weekend
Brendan Benson – Missed his full set, this was and acoustic effort in The Guardian Lounge. Seemed solid enough, for an act I don’t know one song by. Seeing him again on Sunday in Manchester.
Sons And Daughters – Rocked it up to a satisfying degree. Might have to get the album.
Mylo - Joint best set of Glastonbury 05. The actual quality of performance was a bit worse than the first time I saw him, but the crowd was so scarily up for it it didn’t matter. Danced for an hour straight and left covered in sweat. Anybody who doesn’t own this guy’s album needs their head checked.
Primal Scream – Only caught 10 minutes of their over-running set. This was car crash live music at it’s very best. The highlight was the stage manager coming on stage to force an end to the performance
Basement Jaxx – My least favourite of the three headline acts I saw, but they were still excellent. Not helped by an overly tall audience. Current single You Don’t Know Me was an unlikely highlight.
Stories Worth Telling From The Weekend
That Storm – I benefited from camping on a hill, and not leaving my tent until the worst of the rain had passed. The thunder and rain woke me up at half six, and I spent a lot of the morning listening to Radio 1’s attempts to cope with the flash floods.
On The Radio – On Saturday afternoon I headed to the Radio 1 Stage to watch Moyles and Vernon’s show live. Somehow I was front row dead centre when they started talking of a mystery band that would be along to play an acoustic set soon. A bit later they brought along equipment labelled Keane, later still and the band turned up, played Somewhere Only We Know just for the assembled crowd, then did an interview and Bend And Break on air. Needless to say I left quite smug that I’d had such a prime position for this surprise set.
Final Night and The Silent Disco – After Basement Jaxx’s set, and having successfully returned Krystina safely back to her caravan, I headed to The Silent Disco to see what it was like. The queue was huge so I visited The Pussy Parlur first, which was like I 50s décor club in the Dance Village. Very Cool. Didn’t stay long though, and headed to the Silent Disco.
This is really worth taking the time to explain. Brought in to help Glastonbury’s problems making loud noise throughout the night, upon entrance you are handed a pair of wireless headphones, and everybody dances along like a normal club night. Here’s the real genius though: There are two separate DJ’s, and your headphones have a tuning dial so you can constantly pick which one to listen to. Half the people then, are constantly dancing to something completely different to you. The DJ’s aren’t afraid to mix genres up, and the whole thing works as a competition between the two of them - they’ll occasionally ask you through the headphones to cheer if you are listening to them and will compete for the biggest response. One highlight was half the crowd singing Brimful Of Asha, while the other half shout along to Anarchy In The UK. Ridiculously good fun.
It was helped that the people I met in the Saturday night Keane/New Order/Coldplay crowd showed up, adding a reunion atmosphere to the whole thing. Finally left at half three in the morning, and was walking through my field when I figured that as sunrise was only about an hour away, and it’s a half hour walk across the site, I may as well for the first time see the sunrise from the stone circle. It rounded off the weekend perfectly, and finally got back to my tent at 7.
Slept for two hours, then packed everything up and made my way to the bus station, where the coach was the traditional 3 hours late turning up. Didn’t care though, this was for me the best Glastonbury yet. 2007 seems all too far away…
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